Leningrad: Shaping a Soviet City Volume 8

by Blair A. Ruble

Book Overview

Throughout much of this century, cities around the world have sought to gain control over their urban destinies through concerted government action. Nowhere has this process of state intervention gone further than in the Soviet Union. This volume explores the ways in which local and regional political, economic, and cultural leaders in Leningrad determine the physical and socioeconomic contours of their city and region within such a centralized economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520305809
• ISBN13: 9780520305809
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"